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February 16, 2021: “Collective Eyes on Our History and Collective Hearts on Our....”

                    

YOUR META WELCOMES YOU TO THE YEAR TWENTY-AUGHT-TWENTY AND ONE!

 


Welcome to another year of hope, relevance, relief, self-awareness and SELF-CARE-NESS! We've brought you:


SHE ON THE PLAYGROUND 

FREDERICK McKINLEY JONES: INVENTOR

SONGS THAT BRING HISTORY TO LIFE

THE REPAIR REVOLUTION CONTINUES


PLUS: WHAT IS A FLAME-THROWER TO A REFRIGERATION SYSTEM???


And we're still serving up music, mindful, and META: ALLLLL the things YOUR BLACK META does with PASSION AND PANACHE!



THE COWBOY JUNKIES HAD IT RIGHT: 'F*CK, I HATE THE COLD'!











—Your Black Meta!

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LOCAL organizations to connect, to listen, and to be heard:




  • https://citizenactionny.org/about
  • https://citizenactionny.org/events/venues/7-grand-st-kingston-ny-12401-usa


  • https://kingstontenantsunion.org/
  • https://kingstontenantsunion.org/events/
  • https://kingstontenantsunion.org/news/


  • https://riseupkingston.org/
  • https://riseupkingston.org/blog






FreedomWalker's Sources, Citations, Credits, and Links





COFFEE & GREEN TEA COMBO


  • No credits for this segment




THE SPRUCE


  • Thespruce.com





SOMETHING DIFFERENT - EDITORIAL

  • History.com - "8 Black Inventors Who Made Our lives Easier" / inventor Frederick McKinley Jones.
  • Blackpast.org - FREDERICK MCKINLEY JONES (1893-1961) POSTED ON JUNE 30, 2008, CONTRIBUTED BY: CHRISTOPHER BLU





K-TOWN NEWS


  • The Almanac




MINDFUL MUSEUM


  • Reading & Discussion of Book. "REPAIR REVOLUTION - How Fixers Are Transforming Our Throwaway Culture" John Wackman & Elizabeth.






beetle's Sources, Citations, Credits, and Links



S P O T L I G H T








‘"SEAGULLS! (Stop It Now)" -- A Bad Lip Reading of The Empire Strikes Back.’ Bad Lip Reading, Youtube. [3:56] Yoda is not fond of seagulls. Full-length version of the song first seen here: https://youtu.be/UkiI2vM2lfA. November 25, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9t-slLl30E




FULL PLAYLIST of BAD LIP READING'S STAR WARS SATIRE:



"STAR WARS." Bad Lip Reading, Youtube. [10 videos, last updated December 25, 2019] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDWOaLX7rvz2c9FovuAIFcocP--3o2oI7








(Re)Sources for Meta on the Meta: She On the PLAYGROUND and Black X-Files: Rhiannon Giddens on... Songs That Bring History to Life” 




Multimedia

  1. "Rep. Cori Bush Denounces White Supremacist Violence from the Capitol Insurrection to Ferguson." Democracy Now!, Youtube. [7:18] With former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial set to begin in the Senate this week, we feature the speech Democratic Congressmember Cori Bush of Missouri made Thursday on the floor of the House of Representatives to demand accountability for the attack on the U.S. Capitol. "On January 3, we stood together to swear our oath to office, to the Constitution. We swore to defend it against all enemies foreign and domestic," Bush said. "It was attacked by a domestic enemy called white supremacy, and we must stand together now, today, to uphold that oath and hold every single person who helped incite it accountable." #DemocracyNow​  Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: https://democracynow.org. February 8, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIu3vZOyzOs
  2. "Rep. Cori Bush - Standing Up for Her Constituents in Congress | The Daily Social Distancing Show." The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Youtube. [13:22] Democratic Missouri Rep. Cori Bush talks about Covid-19 relief, how some of her congressional colleagues are “out of touch,” justice for federal death row inmates and standing up to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. #DailyShow​ #TrevorNoah​ #RepCoriBush​  Support Color of Change’s efforts in creating a more humane and less hostile world for Black people in America: https://www.dailyshow.com/ColorOfChange​. February 5, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoV19dhg75k
  3. "Songs that bring history to life | Rhiannon Giddens." TED, Youtube [14:45] Rhiannon Giddens pours the emotional weight of American history into her music. Listen as she performs traditional folk ballads — including "Waterboy," "Up Above My Head," and "Lonesome Road" by Sister Rosetta Tharp — and one glorious original song, "Come Love Come," inspired by Civil War-era slave narratives.  The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more. June 23, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbeekjZP-CI





Articles, Bibliographies, Resources & Websites


  1. "Julie." Rhiannon Giddens, Genius.com. Per one site contributor: Julie is a song set in the Civil War, based on a real life event in Mississippi. The lyrics are loosely drawn from an excerpt from The Slaves' War by Andrew Ward. In the excerpt, Julie and Mill, two house slaves, are with their mistress as Yankee soldiers head towards the plantation. Their mistress begs them to run away, saying that the Yankees are the devil and they cannot get caught, but the slaves refuse. The mistress asks them to lie about her money so it won’t get taken, but Mill refuses, as her mistress got that after selling Mill’s children. When the Yankees finally reach them, the two leave, letting the mistress break down. Album, Freedom Highway, produced by Dirk Powell & Rhiannon Giddens. Accessed February 15, 2021. https://genius.com/Rhiannon-giddens-julie-lyrics



Julie, oh Julie
Won't you run?
'Cause I see down yonder, the soldiers have come
Julie, oh Julie
Can't you see?
Them devils have come to take you far from me

Mistress, oh mistress
I won't run
'Cause I see down yonder, the soldiers have come
Mistress, oh mistress
I do see
And I'll stay right here 'til they come for me

Julie, oh Julie
You won't go
Leave this house and all you know
Julie, oh Julie
Don't leave here
Leave us, who love you, and all you hold dear

Mistress, oh mistress
I will go
Leave this house and all I know
Mistress, oh mistress
I will leave here
With what family I've got left, they're all I hold dear

Julie, oh Julie
Won't you lie?
If they find that trunk of gold by my side
Julie, oh Julie
You tell them men
That that trunk of gold is yours, my friend

Mistress, oh mistress
I won't lie
If they find that trunk of gold by your side
Mistress, oh mistress
That trunk of gold
Is what you got when my children you sold

Mistress, oh mistress
Don't you cry
The price of stayin' here is too high
Mistress, oh mistress
I wish you well
But in leavin' here, I'm leavin' hell



  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cori_Bush
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_observation
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief#Justified_true_belief
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_of_knowledge
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAHOOTS_(crisis_response)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_study
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_model
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflation
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistency
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_research
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiment
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_concept
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Grassmann
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothesis
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_responsibility
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_rigor
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_virtue
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justification_(epistemology)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_consequence
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_observation
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observational_study
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operationalization
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_research
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_research
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigour
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigour#Intellectual_rigour
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_ethics
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_terrorism
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjectivity
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffering
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testable
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Responsibility_of_Intellectuals
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_judgment
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kingdon_Clifford
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom#Sapience




[Referenced / resourced, but not aired]

Multimedia


  1. "Rhiannon Giddens - Cry No More." Rhiannon Giddens, Youtube. [2:57] The massacre at the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina, in June is just the latest in a string of racially charged events that have broken my heart. There are a lot of things to fix in this world, but history says if we don't address this canker, centuries in the making, these things will continue to happen. No matter what level privilege you have, when the system is broken everybody loses. We all have to speak up when injustice happens. No matter what. And music is one of the best way I know to do so. —Rhiannon Giddens  Directed by Harvey K Robinson Filmed at United Congregational Church in Greensboro, NC. Know your history. Know your mind. Speak up. Be loud. July 16, 2015. https://youtu.be/PU3cGLtULeI
  2. "I'm On My Way (with Francesco Turrisi)." Rhiannon Giddens, Youtube. [2:57] Provided to YouTube by Nonesuch  I'm On My Way (with Francesco Turrisi) · Rhiannon Giddens · Francesco Turrisi  there is no Other (with Francesco Turrisi)  ℗ 2019 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States  Drums: Francesco Turrisi Producer: Joe Henry Masterer: Kim Rosen Banjo, Viola, Vocals: Rhiannon Giddens Mixer, Recorded by: Ryan Freeland Writer: Joe Henry Writer: Rhiannon Giddens. September 12, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z03MpRZ5U1c
  3. "Rhiannon Giddens: On the Lost History of the Black Banjo." Greenmentch, Youtube. [6:28] Rhiannon Giddens is a Grammy-award-winning musician and co-founder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops who discusses the history of the African banjo and how it became a keynote instrument of American music through the minstrelsy and beyond.  Rhiannon is part of the new film on mountain music, A Great American Tapestry, The Many Strands of Mountain Music, with more information at www.saveculture.org. June 20, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkGSns7-_e0




[Referenced / resourced, but not read on-air]


Articles, Bibliographies, Resources & Websites


  1. "Tamara Lanier’s Fight to Reclaim Her History Could Be Any One of Ours." Vanessa K. De Luca, Medium.com. Imagine if you learned that photographs of your enslaved ancestors had been rediscovered in a museum at Harvard. Then imagine how you would feel if someone told you that you have no right to those photographs. Such is the plight of Tamara Lanier, who has taken on the Ivy League behemoth to secure the rights to the photos, which languished in a drawer out of sight and away from the public eye for years. The daguerreotypes depict women and men, breasts and genitalia exposed, their haunting stares a riveting testament to the degradation our ancestors endured during slavery’s shameful reign. February 3, 2021. https://zora.medium.com/tamara-laniers-fight-to-reclaim-her-history-could-be-any-one-of-us-9824dc49c365
  2. "The 10 Most Infuriating Things People Have Said to Me as a Black Woman." Sondra Rose Marie, Medium.com. ‘Do you know how to read?’ In the time of coronavirus, I spend a lot of time sitting around with the friends in my quarantine circle trading stories about our lives before the pandemic. Recently, our conversation turned to the worst dates we’d ever been on, and as I relayed one of my dating failures, I shared a racially charged comment one suiter made on a first date. January 24, 2021. https://zora.medium.com/the-10-most-infuriating-things-people-have-said-to-me-as-a-black-woman-bd8355da546e
  3. "Woman fights Harvard over rights to nude SC images of her enslaved ancestors." Jennifer Berry Hawes, Postandcourier.com. What on earth were these? Nothing in the drawer explained what they’d discovered. Only small, handwritten labels affixed to each offered clues: “Fassena (carpenter), Mandingo, plantation of Col. Wade Hampton, near Columbia, S.C.” “Jack (driver), Guinea, plantation of B.F. Taylor, Esq., Columbia, S.C.” “Jem, Gullah, belonging to F.W. Green, Esq.” One of the researchers rushed downstairs to summon their colleagues. The discovery sent Reichlin and others on a quest to solve the disturbing mystery. It continues today, 45 years later. But Harvard historians weren’t the only ones hunting for clues. In 2019, a woman named Tamara Lanier sued the university for possession of the daguerreotypes. Based on her own research, she claimed to be a descendant of two people captured in them. February 1, 2021. https://www.postandcourier.com/columbia/woman-fights-harvard-over-rights-to-nude-sc-images-of-her-enslaved-ancestors/article_72ddeef0-45e8-11eb-a13a-6b9662e76945.html
  4. "GOP-Led States Still Mad About The 1619 Project, Considering Legislation to Dictate How Slavery Is Taught." Joe Jurado, Theroot.com. It’s Thursday, so you know what that means: Another round of Republicans being unwilling to face the fact that slavery was the horrific, violent foundation upon which this country was built. In several states with GOP leadership, legislation is being considered to ensure that the brutal reality of slavery isn’t taught in schools. February 4, 2021. https://www.theroot.com/gop-led-states-still-mad-about-the-1619-project-consid-1846198928










Music Playlists




FreedomWalker's Playlist:

  1. Linda Ronstadt: “Long Long Time
  2. Michael Jackson: “Who Is It?”
  3. Chris Lane: “Fix”




beetle's Playlist:

  1. Rhiannon Giddens, featuring Francesco Turrisi: “I'm On My Way”
  2. Steve Lacy: “Playground”
  3. Rhiannon Giddens: “Julie”



LYRICS

  • Geniuslyrics.com










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